This was my first foray into Southern Swamp, and its annoying nagas that weaken me.

After I managed level 2, however, I ran across a level 1 naga that the combat predictor says will not damage me. I do not have first strike, so I don't understand why I will kill him, but he won't touch me.

You will attack before lower leveled targets, and because you will kill it in one hit, it won't get a chacne to strike back.Yes, the weakness is permenent, but there are a few ways to get rid of it. there is god boons, and a potion, that's about it all (I'm trying to not spoil it to much). So try to avoid getting weakned.

For first strike rules, anyone who literally has first strike (GETINDARE, rogues, goblins, etc.) will hit first unless you both have first strike, in which case it is simultaneous. If neither of you have first strike, the higher level character hits first. When you unlock the gods, they are not placed randomly, but from now on a random god (increasing to 2 then 3) will spawn from your pool of unlocked gods.

We made an expansion and it is awesome. Really, you should check it out, especially if you're looking for some extra challenge.

Its really exciting to read your questions You are on your best way to become an expert if you already want to know every little bit of game mechanic I am looking forward to the writeup on your first vicious dungeon (but it will take a while until you even unlock the first one )

Keep us posted! Killing a boss at lvl 7 is an impressive achievement! Next time try to start the boss fight at level 6 right before the edge to lvl 7, then kill a low level monster without taking damage to level up and fully heal infight and then kill the boss

The glyph attacks (Burndayraz and Pisorf) are on a completely different attack continuum and have nothing to do with the regular attack logic.

Normally this is true, but if the monster can retaliate against fireballs then this priority matters a lot. The fact that we veterans didn't know that BURNDAYRAZ had effectively the highest priority in the game is one of the reasons we couldn't solve the Mystera 3 puzzle when it was first released.